Alberti Assignment In the treatise On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti, Alberti analyzes the naturalistic study of painting and what fundamental elements will make the painting a pleasure to create and view for the viewer. These key principles are circumscription, composition and reception of light. As evidenced in Raphael's Deposition, he was influenced by and used Alberti's elements in his painting. Alberti used mathematics and geometry to take an image and place it in a grid to recreate the image from the viewer's point of perspective in order to show a figure in multiple angles, which define the constituency. In Rafael's painting, it appears that each figure was created using separate grid patterns to create the outline of each individual, ensuring each has different angles to showcase their body. The image of Christ at his angle shows the front of his body as well as the side of his head, side, arms and legs. The men carrying Christ into the burial cave are shown in perspectives that also show more dimensions to the figure. Three ways the face is formed are shown...